I mentioned new items! I now have limited quantities of two different Holiday Cards available! They come in packs of 12 and are monster themed. Supplies are limited and once they are gone they are gone. AND the current Black Friday sale does apply to these new items! Head to the store to get yours today!

Wednesday, November 26, 2014

I have for you today the second piece of a much larger personal project. On Monday I shared with you the first piece, the Gray Wanderer, and it was received very well. Like the Gray Wanderer I finished this up awhile back and am just now sharing it. This piece was finished just prior to Illuxcon and went home with another artist (seeing a trend). I present you with the Corrupted Knight...

Further details on this piece, like all of these personal monster on toned paper will have to wait for another day and hopefully a different type of information interface. Fear naught, all will be revealed in the fullness of time. As an added bonus here are some images of the piece as I worked on it...

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Starting this Friday, November 28th, and running thought Friday, December 5th I will be running a sale on my store! Just in time for the holidays. Get Grandma something she will really enjoy, a monster!

I will be offering a 15% discount off all sales and the first 10 transactions of $50 or more will receive a free gift! Just use the discount code: RAWR! (all caps with the exclamation point) to receive your discount.

Monday, November 24, 2014

I am a little behind in sharing some of my personal work here on the blog. With all the client work and related content I have waiting to post my personal work sometimes take a back seat. Let's see if I can remedy that!

Here is the first piece of a larger personal project I am currently working on. You may remember seeing process images of this a few months back. In fact this piece was done prior to Gen Con and went home with a fellow artist at Gen Con. I present you with the Gray Wanderer...

I have spoken a little about this piece, but to be to the point it is a mixing of Cthulhu and Norse mythos. I will leave it at that for now, there will be plenty of time and better places to go into detail. As an added bonus here are some images of the piece as I worked on it...

Friday, November 21, 2014

Finishing off a week of traditional painting posts on the blog today with the process that went into Pusbubble! You might remember Pusbubble from back in June when I first shared him to you. Pusbubble is from the Foul Play expansion for Blood Bowl and was my first traditionally painted piece for Fantasy Flight Games. Here is a look at the final before we get into the process...

Pusbubble was described as a very small very excited Nurgling that wore home made gear and armor and just wanted to be part of the game. Oh, and he needed to be dripping with goo and filth, killing everything around it. I started things off with some thumbnails as I got my head around this cute little guy...

Option 'C' was the winner. Looking back now it seems like a not brainer, but at the time I was really up in the air on which was my preferred thumbnail. There may have been some mention in the assignment about the ball being a little too big to carry or Pusbubble was having trouble lifting it I think 'C' better conveys that. Now that I had a thumbnail is was time to work up the final drawing...

The drawing was approved without comment. You might notice that the aspect ratio changed from the thumbnail to the drawing. I wanted to paint on a standard size board so I extended the background horizontally to allow me to work on an 8 x 10 surface. With that squared away it was time to paint. Here some images of the piece coming together...

I was (am) still figuring out this traditional painting stuff. In Pusbubble especially there was a lot of experimentation and just trying things out to see if it would work. I was also trying some new medium and different types of combinations of medium. Some of the experiments have led to processes I continue today while others have been abandoned. Still very much learning and figuring this all out on this piece. Here is a little animated process progression thing that better show the piece coming together...

Wednesday, November 19, 2014

On Monday I shared with you a traditional painting from back in January, the Uber Grotesque, today I have for you something a little more recent. This piece was completed early October and should better show what my current traditional work looks like and how much it has changed since January. Here is the first of a series of self portraits I am working on...

As I am want to do I documented this painting coming together so that I could share it here on the blog. Here are a series of photos of the this painting taking shape. You can see what has changed and long the way. If you keep going till the end you will also see an little animated gif of the painting process to get a better feel for the steps...

Monday, November 17, 2014

At the end of last week I noticed a new piece of my work has popped up on the internet. This means I can now share it with you! This is a piece done for the first expansion for Warhammer 40K - Conquest, The Howl of Blackmane. I created this back in January and it is the second piece that I created traditionally for Fantasy Flight Games. Before I go too much into this piece, here is now the final turned out...

A lot has happened and changed with my traditional work since January. So it is a little weird to be showing this off now while I know what the future holds. Enough about that for now!

I will go into more detail about this piece when I share the process in the near future when the expansion is officially released. For now though I will show how the piece ultimately turned out. While I did this piece traditionally there was sizable modification requested for this piece once I had completed the painting that required a digital fix. Here is how the final modified piece turned out that was used in the game...

As I said, I will be going into more detail about this piece and the process that went into creating it here on the blog once the card is officially released. In the meantime, here is a small watermarked look at what the final card will look like...

Uber Grotesque in handy dandy card form (RAWR)

That is all for another exciting Monday on the blog, see you back here on Wednesday! Until then...

About Me

I began my career designing special makeup effect for movies and television. Some of the television shows I worked on including Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly.

Currently I work in the gaming industry illustrating and designing monsters. I have done work with
Wizards of the Coast, Fantasy Flight Games, Paizo Publishing, Privateer Press, and AEG (just to name a few) on various book, card and miniature gaming products.